Looks like you either need to download it again, and check you're getting the right, complete file. Or look for a text document in the unzipped folder called INSTALL or README. Either open them in Kwrite or do 'cat INSTALL' in the terminal to view them.

One of them should give you the correct commands and any configure parameters needed to install properly.

after unzipping the file.
and i ran ./configure.
it asks a series of yes/no questions. once configure finished, this is the message at the very end.

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.90.... no
checking for GLIB...configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment to the full path to pkg-config.

Alternately, you may set the environment variables GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIBS_LIBS to
avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

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